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———. “Battle Experience: Solomon Islands Actions, August and September 1942” (Secret Information Bulletin No. 2), March 1, 1943. WWII Command File, Box 260, Operational Archives, NHC.

———. “Battle Experience: Solomon Islands Actions, October 1942” (Secret Information Bulletin No. 3), March 15, 1943. WWII Command File, Box 260, Operational Archives, NHC.

———. “Battle Experience: Solomon Islands Actions, November 1942” (Secret Information Bulletin No. 4), March 25, 1943, written by R. S. Edwards, COMINCH chief of staff. WWII Command File, Boxes 260–261, Operational Archives, NHC.

———. “Memorandum for Admiral,” July 31, 1943. NARA.

———. “Investigation of the Loss of the USS Vincennes, USS Quincy, USS Astoria, and HMAS Canberra.” No serial, September 14, 1943, NARA.

———. First Official Report to the Secretary of the Navy, March 1, 1944. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 2006.

———. “Comments by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, on Chapter VI: Supporting the Guadalcanal Campaign,” undated. NWC.

Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) (Nimitz). Command Summary, “Grey Book” (operational orders), 2 vols. NHC, Operational Archives, Boxes 1–4.

———. “Gunnery Bulletin No. 2–42,” June 6, 1942. NARA.

———. “Supply of Reinforcements to Continue Campaign in South Pacific.” Serial 0164, July 17, 1942.

———. “Preliminary Report—Solomons Islands Operation.” Serial 02576, August 23, 1942 (first endorsement to COMSOPAC report of August 16, 1942).

———. “Solomon Islands Campaign, Second Savo Island Action, 11–12 October 1942, Preliminary Report.” Serial 03151, October 30, 1942.

———. “Future Operations in the Solomons Sea Area.” Serial 0259, December 8, 1942.

———. “Solomon Island Campaign, Second Savo Night Action, Night of 11–12 October 1942.” Serial 03791, December 26, 1942.

———. “Preliminary Report of Action, 12–13 November 1942,” Serial 03812, December 28, 1942. NARA.

———. “Solomons Islands Campaign—Battle of the Solomons, 11–15 November 1942.” Serial 00554, February 18, 1943. RG 38, Box 1728, NARA.

———. “Solomons Island Campaign, 5th Battle of Savo—November 30, 1942.” Serial 00546, February 15, 1943. NARA.

———. “Solomon Islands Campaign from Fourth Battle of Savo, 30 November, 1942, to Munda Bombardment, 4–5 January, 1943.” Serial 00599, March 9, 1943. NARA.

———. “Report of Night Action, Task Force 64—November 14–15, 1942, The Third Battle of Savo Island.” Serial 00617, March 18, 1943. RG 38, Box 1728, NARA.

General Headquarters, Far East Command, Military Intelligence Section, General Staff, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section. Japanese Monograph No. 98, Southeast Area Naval Operations, Part I, May 1942–February 1943, Document No. 40427.

Hepburn, Arthur J. “Report of Informal Inquiry into the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the USS Vincennes, Quincy and Astoria, and HMAS Canberra, on 9 August 1942, in the Vicinity of Savo Island (Solomon Islands),” Serial 001965, May 13, 1943, with annexes, 3 vols. NARA, RG 38, Boxes 1727–1728.

HMAS Australia. “Night Action Off Savo Island,” August 11, 1942. NARA.

HMAS Canberra. “Loss of the HMAS Canberra,” August 12, 1942. NARA.

Imperial Japanese Navy, Action Records, IJN warships Aoba, Atago, Chokai, Furutaka, Kinugasa, Kirishima, August–November 1942. Records of Japanese Navy and Related Documents, Operational Archives, NHC, Box 55.

MacArthur, Douglas. Reports of General MacArthur: The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific, 2 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966 (originally published by General MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters, 1950).

MacKenzie, H. A. Lt. Cdr., RAN. “Report on Coast-Watching in the South Pacific Area Covering Period 1st June 1942 to 21st April 1943.” SOPAC Administrative History Appendices, folder 34(19)(A), NHC.

Office of Naval Intelligence. “Guadalcanal and Tulagi Bases.” WWII Command File, CNO Intelligence, Operational Archives, NHC, Box 118.

Turner, Richmond Kelly, to Ernest J. King. “Strategic Deployment in the Pacific Against Japan,” March 26, 1942; secret note, March 27, 1942. NARA.

U.S. Naval War College,